Johnson’s setting for Black Hole Heart creates a perfect, lonely atmosphere. It’s hard to avoid anyone in a small town, but Rebecca is strangely keen on avoiding Sally, and seems especially wary of her illness. However, the newly licensed Rebecca has to drive Sally to the hospital twice a month for doctor’s appointments, otherwise her father won’t let her use the car. Their families are neighbors and the girls were friends as children but no longer seem to have a connection. Sally is sick, and her sickness seems to have taken over her life. Rebecca is a surly teen, sick of her job at the Live Bait Family Buffet and her life in a tiny town. The story takes place in a rural, truly middle-of-nowhere town, and tracks the now-broken friendship between Rebecca and Sally. Johnson that just took home the 2020 Ignatz award for Outstanding Minicomic. Johnsonįriendship is the focus of Black Hole Heart, a horror comic by Cathy G. Friendships end, and can’t be repaired, but they still influence our lives. Sometimes, people change irrevocably in unexpected ways. Horror stories examine relationships in ways that don’t follow normal logic, and I find that exciting and fascinating. Perhaps paradoxically, I also LOVE horror, a genre where questions often go unanswered, or the source of the horror is never fully explained. I am the kind of person who wants everything to make sense, and for everything to have a reason.
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